Big Government

Meet Preet Bharara, the U.S. prosecutor who last week indicted anti-Obama filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza on campaign finance charges. Mr. Bharara is the snapping jaws of Attorney General Eric H. Holder’s junkyard attack dog and the velvet fixer of President Obama’s

With officials all over the state objecting that victims of Hurricane Sandy have not received adequate funding to return to their homes, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is under fire yet again for another suspicious project paid for by Sandy funds.

The Cowboy State, a.k.a. Big Wyoming, is the most conservative state in the Union, with over half its population (51.4%) identifying as conservative according to the latest Gallup poll. The poll shows that Mississippi (47.9%), Idaho (47.5%), Utah (46.9%), and Montana

The Wall Street Journal reports that real disposable income among Americans only grew 0.7% in 2013, the weakest growth since 2009. Because of the minimization of income growth, the rise in consumer spending over the last two months of 2013 is expected

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) announced Friday that throughout 2013 his three campaign arms raised $4.16 million. Cruz made the massive haul over 2013 through his re-election committee, Ted Cruz for Senate, his joint fundraising committee, Ted Cruz Victory Committee, and

Twenty dispensaries have been licensed in Massachusetts to start growing and selling marijuana for medical use. Regulators in the state were given 100 applications to open dispensaries in 2012, with permission to offer up to 35 licenses. An official with

It’s going to take more than Wendy Davis’s pink-shoed filibuster to entice more women into running for office. A New York Times report Friday highlights the lack of change in the number of female candidates and the decades-long struggle to correct

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani blasted publications claiming he said there was a “fifty-fifty” chance New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wasn’t directly involved in Bridgegate, saying he was only referring to what a New York Times article suggested. Speaking

On Friday, President Barack Obama, who has admitted that during college he used marijuana and sometimes “a little blow,” told CNN that it is Congress’s job to remove marijuana from the government’s list of serious narcotics. Although the president did

The front-running members of the Republican establishment have abandoned former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, once a Republican political darling. According to the Virginia Public Access Project (VPAP), McDonnell’s legal defense fund raised just under $12,000 in six months, despite McDonnell’s heavy

Some Republican establishment operatives and their big donors want former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to run again in 2016–but they won’t go on record with their comments. An anonymous establishment operative told left-wing BuzzFeed that the 2016 GOP field,

The Christie for Governor campaign is looking to build up its coffers yet again but not to keep Christie in the governor’s mansion. The campaign, subpoenaed by the New Jersey State Legislature in its ongoing investigation of closures at the

After the House Republican leadership unveiled its “immigration principles” on Thursday, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who has staunchly and relentlessly defended American workers against amnesty, weighed in once again. Sessions said it looked like the consultant-driven and “recycled talking points” offer

On Janauary 29, Senator Mark Udall’s (D-CO) son, Jed Udall, was arrested in Boulder County, Colorado for trespassing and heroin possession. According to the Daily Camera, when City of Boulder rangers and Boulder County deputies responded to a call, they

The first negative January for the S&P 500 since 2010 is giving historians of Wall Street pause, considering that historically a bad January bodes ill for a barometer of the coming year. According to the Stock Trader’s Almanac, when January

The shale oil and gas boom has skyrocketed property values in the tiny town of Cotulla, Texas, from $550 million in 2011 to a staggering $5 billion in 2013, reports Newsmax. Cotulla’s wealth explosion has also tripled tax revenues. That

Former Port Authority official David Wildstein promised he would talk when the time is right, and now The New York Times is reporting that the man who personally oversaw the closures on the George Washington Bridge last September claims Christie knew

The Senate’s Democrat Majority Leader, Nevada’s Harry Reid, once again attacked conservative financiers David and Charles Koch, this time claiming they are trying to “buy the country.” Reid’s hyperbolic attack came during a discussion of the Obama administration’s use of

Last month, President Barack Obama hailed income inequality as “the defining challenge of our time.” Politico says nervous Democrats are “convinced” the issue will help stave off midterm election losses to Republicans. On Wednesday, however, Obama’s own pollster, Joel Benenson, told